AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Intel Core i7-11850H

Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Core i7-11850H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900HS beats the Core i7-11850H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-11850H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11850H. A Ryzen 9 5900HS CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-11850H CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.